The post Why Gavin Newsom can’t stop at simply trolling Fox appeared first on Salon.com. A single screenshot could cost Fox News hundreds of millions of dollars — unless primetime host Jesse Watters retracts his false reporting and apologizes on-air to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Describing himself as “an articulate voice fighting the radical Fox News agenda,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom — in his individual capacity — sued the network for defamation Friday, arguing that its coverage of a call he had with President Donald Trump earlier this month was designed to damage his reputation.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million as part of a defamation lawsuit filed on Friday in a Delaware court. Newsom is accusing the network, particularly its host Jesse Watters,